🔬 Optics + Mechanobiology Postdoc (she/her) 🇮🇳 🇬🇧
Nottingham, England
Joined March 2017
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How do cells sense and manipulate the extracellular matrix around them?
To answer this and other #cell-#matrix questions, we’ve built a new instrument called OptoRheo
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Grandstanding, not insight
Cambridge & UK academia don't suffer from shortage of brilliant early-career researchers
Real problem is structural: there are nowhere near enough stable academic jobs for those researchers to go into
Talent is not the constraint — opportunity is
"We're definitely losing bright, talented, young, early-stage researchers to other locations - because there's so many friction points before actually getting into the UK"
Gillian Tett, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, responds to today's immigration figures.
#Newsnight
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Please fill out the Home Office’s survey on whether or not the UK should extend the pathway to ILR to 10 years.
The consultation closes at 23:59 TONIGHT - this is your chance to fight against this unfair plan.
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2) There are still many basic unknowns. For example does this enigmatic sheath provide chromosomes with biophysical/biomechanical properties...
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Awesome work from @TaniaVMendonca & a brill multi-disciplinary team @AmandaWrightUoN @Neil_Kad @ManlioTassieri
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If you love chromosomes (who doesnt!) then I ho ho hope you enjoy reading about our latest work on BioRxiv, relating to the chromosome periphery (CP) - the least understood chromosome compartment. 2 Stories - see below...
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Visa costs for researchers and innovators to move into the UK are up to seventeen times higher than the average, according to new analysis commissioned by the Royal Society and undertaken by @fragomen, undermining our ability to attract global talent to work in academia and industry. Read more: royalsociety.org/news-resour…
To me a future in UK academia is looking more and more untenable. I don't know what lies ahead but there will have to be some big career decisions in the next year theguardian.com/commentisfre…
A great opportunity for anyone looking to pursue a phd - to be part of Jenny's team working on truly exciting and super-multidisciplinary science.
Very excited to have secured funding for a 3 year PhD studentship, using defined biomaterials to study how collagen networks in tumours influence breast cancer progression. Please do circulate and get in touch if you're interested! @NottinghamVets @UoN_BDI
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I hope the prime minister is aware that salaries of postdoctoral researchers have reached such a low level in this country that this law would make it impossible for UK scientists to employ international experts
It would be a huge own goal!
🚨 BREAKING: Rishi Sunak will increase the salary threshold so that EVERY migrant has to earn over £38k before coming to Britain in a major plan to slash migration
He will also announce new limits on them bringing family
[@JackElsom]
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I have two masters degrees from top British unis, including one that won a prestigious award. I’ve lived here for years.
My visa is up in two years and I won’t qualify under these rules.
I feel sick to my stomach right now. After everything I’ve done, it’s still not enough.
We’re increasing the minimum earnings threshold for skilled workers by 48% to £38,700, encouraging businesses to look to British talent first and invest in their workforce.
ALT Immigration action. Stopping immigration undercutting British workers, by increasing the minimum earnings threshold by 48%
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We are running a one-day workshop on identifying causes of early reproductive failure in #birds & #reptiles at @ZSLScience on Tues 19 Sept, with talks, practical training, & discussion/advice. Book a place to join us: zsl.org/earlyreproductivefai… #fertility #reproduction #embryology
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A union that is willing to, well, there's no kinder word--*steal*-- from migrants & visitors from the Global South (who pay gigantic visa fees)-- is no part of a real union movement. Shameful complicity with those who until just now had been kicking you in the face.